Tuesday, July 05, 2005
7:33 PM
Hiie... back from school. Made some changes to etc. Can go see the annoucements for wadever u guys want to know lah huh. School today was ok.........our class hosted a thai girl..... tomorrow's her b'dae! Bought something for her. O, and dance classes are eesh.....i hate the stretching, cos i'm not stretchable. Heehee. And of all dances we have to learn chinese dance.....double eesh. And i owe lots of ppl money... let's see.... i owe Jasmine Poon 5 bucks cos i needed 5 bucks to pay for HMP caoncert. Then i owe xiao hui 10 bucks cos i used 10 bucks to buy 3 files and a gift for the thai ger. Sigh. O, and u guys should really go for either HMP concert or the FOA concert. U will expect more of solo performances in the HMP concert and expect more of perfroming arts groups in the FOA concert. (psst. i'm in the FOA concert!) Argh! Tmw got punishments for band. (flutes 11 rounds i think. Horns 2 rounds and percussion 12 rounds.) We have to run rounds on the track around the whole school building. Imagine! 12 rounds! Man! i died running 2 rounds lor. 12! All because we left our scores on our stands in the band room and we got punished. hmph! Then we have geog test during lunch and maths presentation after lunch. Missing two breaks in a day again. Sigh. And from this week onwards, all percussionists (including bassists i think) have to report to band room during every lunch for practice. SIGH.However, despite all these "dissappointments", we banders still have our own happy moments. (Especially me =) )For an example, today i was thinking of skipping band due to wat happened in my previous post. But i couldn't think of a reason to give... so i went. It didn't go as bad as i thought actually. For one thing, the string enzem ppl weren't there, so there's no one to stand beside me and scare me. For two, Yen Zhen didn't tell Ms chong bout me not playing 7th night, so she assumes i'm playing so i just play lor. Jasmine snr says it'll be good practice anyway. For the third thing, i fared better in most of the songs. *Big Grins* For the fourth thing, we played the nicers ongs today. (No "Movement for ROSA") * Bigger grins*Let's see.....To day we played:1. Simple Gifts(Just like it's name its quite simple to play. It's a very sweet song, divided into 4 movements and the emphasis of the whole song is on the upper woodwinds e.g. flutes, clarinets and oboes....i think i can cope well with this song with more practise.)2. Finale from The New World Symphony(
Like its name its very grand and difficult to play. I'm having trouble playing this piece. But it's a nice song anywa. I need to practice this song a lot more.)For the other songs.......1. 7TH NIGHT OF JULY!!!( This song is the nicest of all lor... but very difficult to play.....sigh......i got problem mastering this piece. Need to work harder. People going for FOA concert are going to enjoy and love this piece. By the way, 7th Night of July is coming, if u know wat i mean.)2. When you believe( This is the second nicest song in my heart. The percussion part is boring though. But then, i'm playing double bass, and the bass part is quite simple. Only the ashira part then it goes fast and my eyes go all blur. So must practice harder.)3. A movement for Rosa(This song is ok....i quite like it lah... it's quite nice with the war-like-sound-effects, makes it sound like a war song. Except it's quite hard to play, not as hard as 7th night but still.... and most people dunno how to appreaciate it. I need to work for some parts in this song also.)4. The Symphonic Gershwin(This song is like party type of song, very bouncy but not very hyper. Nice to play lah, so u'll feel the music. Never really played this piece on bass before. Played more of it on perc.)5. The Genius of Ray Charles(This song arh... quite hard to play...it's those mysterious type....actually from a movie....cant rmb if i played it on bass before or not....)6. Festivo(Another party-like song. This song is very difficult to play, only played it once on bass... didn't play well and couldn't actually catch up....)7. Copacabana(O MAN!!!! This song sets people dancing....it's real nice.....ties in second place with When you believe.The percussion part is damn damn DAMN fun!!!! (Too bad i cannot play.) And there's alot of congas and drumset solo... it's a party-like dance, very very very hyper especially on the perc. It's so damn fun to play....... just like brazillian street dance.=D )8. Brazillian Street Dance(This song is almost like Copacabana only different in melody and emphasis is on xylo and meremba. I only played this piece once on piano in March April...)9. Nineties( I dun noe if we'll be playing this in FOA , but i very nice. Basically it's a mixture of all the pop songs in the nineties. Never played it before cos i dun have the script.)There are many other songs but i'm naming these few cos we're concentrating on them and their nice....Back to my school life.Before i left for home after Band, Perc had duty to keep the chairs and the stands....after our duty, my seniors stayed back to practice. Then Ai Wen was so damn hyped cos of something she saw which was so cool and she decided to try it out. I dun noe how to descibe lah..... hmmmm............It's just playing a rhythm with a lot of friends lined up in one whole row behind all the perc instuments that are non-toned e.g. congas, snare, timpani.....and then starting to play a same rhythm all at once. From at first slow...then go faster and faster and faster until u cant play anymore.... damn fun. The rhythm is easy if u play slow but diff if u play damn fast...and it involves crossing of hands. So u see a mess of hands but hear nice rhythm. Damn fun and challenging lor. So all my seniors lined up in one whole row and made a whole lot of noise in the band room. I wanted to join them but..... cos i'm playing bass so...............Man!!!! Sometimes i really feel like going back to perc and not playing bass. Let's face it. I've always wanted to play the drumset scince small, i love beating things and i love rhythm. I'm definitely better at perc than at bass and playing bass is damn tiring........cos u have to stand throughout the whole band practice which is 3 hrs long.......but perc u have to stand but u can sit when it's not ur turn to play which is like frequently....*sobs* I want percussion!!!!!!!!!!!And i still dunno why i cried on friday. Need time to figure out. O MAN!!!! 1 HR ON THIS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TATA=)